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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Imperators| > |Sulla| > RR71323
Roman Republic, L. Cornelius Sulla, 84 - 83 B.C.
|Sulla|, |Roman| |Republic,| |L.| |Cornelius| |Sulla,| |84| |-| |83| |B.C.|, Struck by a military mint traveling with Sulla in the east after his successful campaign against Mithradates VI. Venus was the patron goddess of Sulla. The two trophies of captured arms on the reverse advertise his two acclamations as imperator by his troops. With this, his first issue, Sulla was the first imperator to issue coinage to pay his legions without the authority of the senate, consequently breaking an important connection between the military and the government. Breaking another taboo, the types were overt propaganda advertising his personal power and accomplishments. Sulla's monetary "innovations" set the example for later imperators and contributed to Rome's transformation from republic to empire.
RR71323. Silver denarius, RSC Cornelia 29, Crawford 359/2, Sydenham 761, BMCRR East 3, SRCV I 276, aVF, both sides off-center but nearly all detail on flan, mobile military mint, weight 3.682g, maximum diameter 20.2mm, die axis 0o, 84 - 83 B.C.; obverse diademed head of Venus right, Cupid standing left holding long palm frond before, L•SVLLA below; reverse capis and lituus between two trophies of captured arms, IMPER above, ITERVM below; scarce; SOLD










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